museum
(noun) a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value
Source: WordNet® 3.1
museum (plural museums or musea)
A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
The plural "musea" has always been very rare in English.
Source: Wiktionary
Mu*se"um, n. Etym: [L., a temple of the Muses, hence, a place of study, fr. Gr.
Definition: A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art. Museum beetle, Museum pest. (Zoöl.) See Anthrenus.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.